Conan: Begins to collaborate with Miss Bayonetta and become famous

"This knife also has no eye spikes. Both of these knives were obtained from Kadekla."

Heiji put the two knives together and compared them carefully, and found that the shapes of the blades of the two knives were different.

Although both have oval handles and are missing a part, the shapes of the missing parts are completely different. When the two knives are put together, a triangular gap is formed between the blades.

"The other four have eye spikes."

Heiji placed the two knives on the table and compared them with the other four. He seemed to have suddenly thought of something and raised his head and asked, "Do you have a hammer?"

"Yes. Yes." Kawazoe handed over a hammer.

Heiji took the hammer, placed a knife on the towel, and tapped gently on the nail on the handle.

The nail fell onto the towel, Heiji took off the handle of the knife and placed the blade on the table.

Although there are eye-drilling holes engraved with "Dongwa Ronglong" on them, the shapes of the eye-drilling holes are completely different.

The eye holes of the two short swords are left and right semicircles. Liang Wei's two swords are star-shaped and circular.

Kawazoe stared at the eye-piercing acupoint for a long time: "Eye-piercing acupoints come in various shapes."

"Originally, the best eye-piercing holes are round. They can absorb the impact of the blade over a larger area," Heiji answered.

Inspector Nakamori immediately asked, "Since a circle is the best, then all shapes should be circles, right?"

"So, there must be a reason why the eye-drilling acupoint is a different shape." Kawazoe drew the shape of the eye-drilling acupoint on the electronic whiteboard.

☆O, left semicircle, right semicircle.

Inspector Nakamori said: "Circles, semicircles, and stars, I have no idea what they mean."

"Yeah..." Kawazoe, who was holding the electronic pen, said with his head tilted.

Everyone was thinking seriously. Kid, who was disguised as Okita, turned his head to look at Goryokaku Tower in the distance and the sun was peeking out from the clouds.

The dazzling sunlight shone down on the ground. Kid squinted at the sunlight and suddenly realized, "…Is it the moon?"

After Okita finished speaking, everyone looked up.

"The moon in the night sky, when flying in the sky, I always use the moon as a mark. The knife without the eye-hole represents the new moon."

Kidd said proudly: "One half circle is the waxing moon, the other half is the waning moon, and the circle is the full moon."

Inspector Nakamori asked in surprise, "Flying in the air...? Can you fly in the air?"

"Ah, that..." Kidd said hurriedly: "No, that's not it. It's just an analogy, for example..."

After saying that, Kidd laughed a few times. His laughter was very devilish. He tried to cover up this little episode with his laughter.

Conan immediately said: "Afue Keizaburo is a fan of Hijikata Toshizo, so is it related to Hijikata Toshizo?"

"That does make some sense." Kawazoe said as he wrote "Hijikata Toshizo" and "Moon" on the screen.

"Higata and Yue..."

Baijiu continued to think while muttering, but he couldn't come up with an answer because Neon culture was completely incomprehensible to him.

At this moment, the cell phone in Heiji's pocket rang.

"No, I can't think of any."

“Yes, let me first research Hijikata Toshizo’s history.

After taking a look at Inspector Nakamori and Kawazoe, Heiji gestured to answer the phone and walked to the corner of the room. The number displayed on the phone was an unknown number.

"Hey, who are you?"

It turned out to be someone unexpected who called.

“It’s so cold—!!”

Hongye on the other end of the phone suddenly shouted.

"Miss." Iori put his coat on her.

I came to Wakkanai, the northernmost city in Hokkaido, to see the red leaves, and made a phone call in front of the northernmost monument in Japan, built at the top of Soya Gorge.

There were only Momiji and Iori around the monument, and the cold wind blew the snowflakes mercilessly hitting the two of them.

"Ah! Heiji! You finally answered the phone!"

Hongye switched her phone to video mode while trembling.

Heiji also switched to video mode, and his face completely filled the screen of Hongye's phone.

"Hello, Hongye? How did you know this number?"

"Haha, Iori found out."

Hongye looked at Iori next to her. Unlike Hongye who was wearing an elegant spring outfit, Iori was wearing an extremely warm winter outfit underneath.

"Yesterday, a number I had never seen before called me. Could it be..."

"Yes! It's me."

Looking at the smiling Momiji on the screen, Heiji let out a long sigh.

"I'm here to look for Heiji. I've been to Sapporo, Otaru, and Tsunayuki, and now I'm in Wakkanai."

"Can you see? This is the northernmost point in Japan!"

Hongye pointed her phone at the triangular pyramidal stone tablet on the left.

"I don't have time to look at this now. I'm investigating the case."

"Hey? Can I take a look at that electronic whiteboard?"

Momiji seemed to be somewhat interested in the electronic whiteboard behind Heiji.

"what?"

"Okay, come on, show me."

Heiji helplessly pointed his phone at the electronic whiteboard.

"Hijikata and Yue, does this have anything to do with the case?"

"Maybe it's related, maybe not..." said Heiji.

There was silence on the other end of the phone, and Hongye seemed to be thinking seriously.

"Wait! Isn't that different from Hijikata's 'Toyotama Hagushu'?"

It was the first time Heiji had heard this term: "Toyotama what? What is that?"

Heiji switched his phone to private mode.

"When Hijikata was in Tama, he chanted some haiku. The book that recorded these haiku is called the "Tou-no-Haku-shu"."

Before they knew it, everyone in the conference room turned their heads to look at Heiji in the corner, listening attentively to what he was saying on the phone.

"It's a haiku from the Shinsengumi's devilish vice-captain." Inspector Nakamori muttered.

Heiji pressed, "Really? What did that Touou say?"

"There are 41 haiku in the Toyotama Hakushu, and six of them describe the rising of the moon."

Heiji turned his head and looked at the six knives on the table. There were exactly six knives here.

Momiji sang these six haiku.

The fifth poem: The long night is filled with ice and the frost-colored peony is white as the moon reflecting the cold and sparse stars.

No. 19 On a fine day in March, the rain fell obliquely, and the water soaked deep into the clear pond bottom

Poem 20: Deep in spring, the moon is bright and clear, hanging over the north of the water and the south of the mountain

The 22nd Poem: I stop at the mountain gate and think about the distant future. How can I imagine the spring moon?

No. 35 Traveling on official business, I think about morality while on the road. The spring moon is like my heart.

The 36th poem sighs: Spring moon, the narrow plain makes it hard to sleep, only thinking of the cool moonlight

Five, Nineteen, Twenty, Twenty-Two, Thirty-Five, Thirty-Six

When Conan heard the numbers of the six haiku, he immediately thought of the paper that Takuzo gave to the police.

"Mr. Kawazoe! Project that paper.

"Okay, okay." Kawazoe quickly operated and enlarged it on the screen.

When he saw the paper, Heiji yelled "Ah!" and then struck a winning pose.

"That's it! You've done a great job, Hongye--!!"